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Serge Mouange is a Cameroon-born, Paris-raised, Tokyo-based car designer for Nissan who had the idea of combining authentic African fabrics with the design of Japanese kimono. The resulting products are part of his new clothing line, Wafrica. Super cool. He plans on expanding the brand to other products that will be a blend of the two distinct but surprisingly harmonious styles.
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Nobuko Kikuchi has been creating cultural fusions in kimono for decades and is regarded as a "walking museum of kimono". She seems to use mainly Indian and Indonesian fabrics, but there are a few fantastic African piecs in the book "Play Kimono: A World of Nobuko Kikuchi" by Ito Sachiko.
Posted by: buzzq | November 09, 2008 at 04:22 AM